Instrument Engineering

Some items are just too interesting to become a brief item with no follow-up. There's not enough detail to satisfy my curiosity. The item about Marissa Diehl's excellent adventure with Washington National Opera's Summer Institute is one of those. Clarksville resident Marissa Diehl is a rising senior at Glenelg Country School and definitely one of our "special" youngsters. In the recent past, she has been in school musicals including "Pippin," which won Cappies Best Musical in 2012. Marissa sings with the Young Artists of America, a group which draws talented high school musicians to reherse, perform and be mentored by professional artists in fully...

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